Our client are a successful global financial services organisation who are currently looking to grow their communications team and are looking to recruit a Group Communications Manager. The key responsibilities of the role will be to formulate and coordinate the delivery of communications to build business reputation, customer satisfaction, employee engagement and implement business change.

Key areas of responsibility

• Champion Internal Communications
• Support and build the management of internal communications strategies to ensure employees are engaged with the brand
• Promote an internal communications plan that promotes business ethos
• Identify and create new internal communications channels
• Work closely with internal stakeholders in HR and Change
• Devise and implement feedback initiatives
• Assist in the production of regular internal news bulletins
• Utilise social media channels to promote two-way exchange of information
• Seek opportunities to influence, lead and motivate at all levels to promote, communicate and support embedding of the sustainability agenda.
• Work with wider communications team across the group

The successful candidate should demonstrate in depth knowledge and understanding of managing internal communications channels. They should be able to vary communication style for different end users and be able to present information and arguments both verbally and in writing. They should have excellent relationship management experience and a proven track record in leading teams to deliver results

My client is a market leader in their sector, due to a period of growth they have have created a new role in the form of an Affiliate Manager.

This role is key to delivering growth and maintaining the business's investment in marketing, particulary digital.

The key remit of the role is to continue the development of affiliate programmes, identifying new business opportunities to drive sales and deliver commercial business objectives. You will manage affiliate programmes and report and track these relationships. Along with controlling the marketing function to develop annual marketing plans and budgets.

The ideal candidate will have experience as an affiliate marketer, experience negotiating, purchasing and managing a variety of online campaigns. As this is a new role there are huge opportunities to strenghten affiliate relationships and to ultimateley increase ROI through third party relationships. If this sounds like the role for you then please attach an up to date copy of your CV.

Digital Optimisation Executive

£20,000 to £25,000 plus bonus, excellent benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen within a major, blue chip organisation with a significant and leading presence in their sector. An ever-growing and evolving web presence has led to the requirement to recruit an experienced Digital Optimisation Executive to ensure that their various web offerings continue to be of a world class standard.

The Digital Optimisation Executive will work closely with marketing, product, IT to identify opportunities to increase conversion, usability and overall customer experience. Alongside internal developers and external agencies, you will manage web development projects to capitalise upon any identified opportunities and to implement online tracking systems utilising the latest technologies in the digital arena. You will provide support to stakeholders across the business to address any issues that arise and resolve these in a timely manner.

You will have experience of working with HTML, CSS and Javascript as well as tools such as Omniture, Google Analytics and Double Click. You will be analytically minded and have experience of working with, and reporting on detailed data. You will have a significant amount of exposure around the business and as such will be an exceptional communicator.

Insight Analyst

£35,000 to £38,000 plus bonus, excellent benefits

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Insight Analyst to further their career within a high profile organisation. You will be key in developing the insight plan and influencing future strategy through the effective analysis and interpretation of customer data.

The Role:

- Evaluate and analyse customer behaviour.

- Interpret analytical results and present findings back to the management.

- Perform data manipulation and analysis using statistical software packages.

- Work closely with other internal stakeholders to coordinate strategy.

- Construct presentations to influence stakeholders across a wide degree of seniority.

Key Requirements:

- Proven customer insight experience, ideally within a service based environment.

- Ability to recommend and action change throughout a business.

- Ability to forge effective business relationships with customers and colleagues across a wide range of disciplines and levels of seniority.

- The ability to make clear recommendations through both written and verbal communication.

- The ideal candidate will be of graduate calibre, proactive, well organised and be able to work autonomously while dealing with a heavy workload.

This is an excellent opportunity within this household brand. If you are a results orientated Insight Analyst with a drive to succeed then this could well be the move you're looking for. With the customer at the heart of everything this business does, this is a highly visible team and the opportunities for further growth and development are excellent.

Our client, an established brand within the healthcare market, is currently looking for a Service Centre Executive to join their expanding marketing function, initally covering a maternity cover contract. Reporting in to the Sales and Marketing Service Centre Manager the successful candidate will be integral part of helping with all aspects of marketing and administration. They will need to deliver excellent customer service to the client's internal and external customer via telephone, email and post enquires.

They will be responsible for providing:

• Supporting Regional Sales Executive through work briefed into the team to maximise occupancy
• To support the marketing Executives in event, conference and exhibition organisation
• To offer support with marketing requests so that they can maximise occupancy
• To be an ambassador for this brand by demonstrating Personal Best behaviours at all times.
• Excellent working knowledge of contact maker and the ability to create contact maker mailings
• Mystery Shopping
• To ensure day to day office tasks are completed including: checking voicemail, printing faxes, Montioring the office's stock levels of trusted advisor and brochures, stationey orders and post into the team.

The successful candidate will be a proactive individual with Good PC skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft packages. They must be a person who can adapt to the task at hand and work with a variety of different people and departments. Initially a maternity cover contract, for the right candidate offers great progression with an established brand.

Our client is a very successful, global business with an enviable brand portfolio and an aggressive growth strategy. As a result of continued expansion an exciting opportunity for a talented Middleweight Designer has arisen. Working within a small in house creative team, you will be part of a dynamic and vibrant team, working with other designers to develop the brands advertising. This Middleweight Designer role will see you working across a number of disciplines including packaging, press, DM and email design. You will need to have an in depth understanding of all Mac applications such as, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and be comfortable working within a challenging, high pressured but rewarding environment. This is a great opportunity to work for one of the regions most established organisations.

This highly successful distribution and manufacturing business are the market leaders in their field offering bespoke and turnkey solutions to the entertainment, construction and industrial arena.

Following an extensive corporate re-brand and facelift over the last 18 months the business has developed its already strong reputation into a wider international market place. With an existing T/O of £6million they have significant growth ambitions, by expanded the quality and breadth of the board and management team over recent years the appointment of a high calibre Commercial Director to support the Managing Director is the next key step in this process.

The remit is to review and where necessary, overhaul the Commercial Strategy for the UK and International markets. Along with other board members the successful candidate will develop account plans for existing and target markets, whist developing the sales and marketing teams capability, you will evaluate potential new partners and new product ideas to further develop the growth plans.

This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual to take the business to its next stage of development. Key focus will be in the growth of the top-line revenue and profitability, supported by product and market development to maintain and grow margins.

You will have a proven track record of driving business development and account management which has delivered growth within a £multi million business. Your portfolio of accounts will stretch across SME to large corporates where you have successfully developed across both.

Key Requirements:

• Experienced proven Commercial Director, preferably with a background in Sales from a design and manufacturing business supplying high quality products/components to the UK and international construction/manufacturing and industrial marketplaces
• Operational experience with P&L growth, with an understanding of strong Sales account management in high volume multi SKU product environment
• A successful track record of delivering growth
• Proven experience of creating and managing a fast growing and highly successful business
• Experience of the UK and International marketplace
• A charismatic leader who clearly demonstrates an ability to empower and motivate a team.

Taking full profit and loss accountability is second nature to you, and you will be an exceptional commercial thinker and negotiator, with innate leadership ability and an extremely high level of imagination and impact. Quite simply, you will be the catalyst that can really make things happen - and take a remarkable business to the next level.

My client a leading Professional services organisation based in Liverpool is looking to recruit a Senior Bid Executive, reporting to the Bid Manager. The Senior Bid Executive will need to be able to generate high quality, business development materials that assist in winning new tenders and retaining key accounts.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing winning proposal strategies, proactive project management of the complete tender process, including strategy, design, drafting, review and production. You will also be responsible for Identifying bidding opportunities and developing presentation documents.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2years experience of proposal development and business writing within professional services. Have experience of PQQ's and ITT's and be able to work on your own initiative.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Bid Executive to join a successful firm. If this sounds like the job for you please attach a relevant CV.

My client, is one of the most respected international full service law firms and are looking to expand their already large Marketing and Business development team, by recruiting for a Business Development Manager to sit within their Commercial practice group.

This role will fill a crucial part of the implementation and delivery of the company commercial practice groups business and marketing plans. Working closely with the CPG, BD and Marketing team along with the key partners to plan, deliver and lead incisive business development support ensuring key objectives in the business plans are achieved.

Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to;

• Working closely with the rest of the CPG team to develop, implement, monitor and report on business and marketing plans.
• Identify strategic products and channels to market.
• Work with the PR team to develop and enhance products internally and externally, whilst strengthening cross practice cooperation.
• Effectively manage pitch processes.
• Encourage effective use of firms CRM system.

The ideal candidate will have extensive Business Development experience, and ideally within the Professional services environment. They must also be educated to degree-level in business or marketing, have strong diplomacy and persuasion skills, and be strategically and commercially-minded.

This vacancy represents an excellent opportunity to join one of the world's largest firms and develop your career within professional services, and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. If you feel you have the relevant experience and background for the role please attach a copy of your most recent CV.

Our client is a household name in the UK financial services industry with a customer-base numbering in the millions. They offer a wide range of products to both commercial and consumer customers and are looking to innovate their proposition to develop new channels to market and increased levels of business. In order to facilitate this growth they are now looking for a Web Analyst to join their existing team.

The key responsibilities of this role will include;

• Managing the Adobe [Omniture] web analytics product suite to provide insight and detailed reporting to inform and assist the ecommerce team in day-to-day site management and optimisation.
• Evolving visitor understanding in order to keep pace with industry, channel and Adobe developments and best practice.
• Defining, planning and implementing web analytic strategies for bupa.co.uk.
• Identifying potential usability issues and suitable hypothesis which will lead to insightful tests.
• Championing a data-driven approach to site optimisation and usability.

The ideal candidate will be;

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent).
• Experience of working in an eCommerce environment.
• Proven to have excellent analytical and numerical skills.
• Skilled in the Adobe product suite; including SiteCatalyst, DataWarehouse, Discover, Test & Target and preferably some Genesis integration experience.
• Experience of managing web analytics implementations.
• Able to cut-through a mass of data and succinctly present insight and recommendations to help drive the business forward.
• Experience of ComScore and Hitwise to supplement the Adobe data.
• Commercial experience within the online financial services sector would be desirable.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with a positive and persuasive manner.

As this business places more and more emphasis on ecommerce through 2012 this is a genuinely exciting time to be joining the company. Interested candidates should attach an updated CV.